Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb

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Ginn, 1890 - Creek language - 464 pages
 

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Page 53 - ... occurrences. The prevailing view is, if we except certain monographs upon the subject, best set forth by Goodwin in his Moods and Tenses, §§ 155, 156, 157, and I accordingly make the presentation there given the basis of my remarks. Goodwin explains this use of the aorist by saying that it gives "a more vivid statement of general truths by employing a distinct case or several distinct cases in the past to represent (as it were) all possible cases, and implying that what has occurred is likely...
Page 170 - Here the protasis has the subjunctive with eav after present tenses, and the optative with et after past tenses. The apodosis has the present or imperfect indicative, or some other form which implies repetition.
Page 395 - The second person singular of this future with ov /xi/ was used by the dramatists as a prohibition, without abandoning the sense which the future can always have in both positive and negative commands. In these prohibitions the future indicative, in which they had their origin, is generally used ; but the subjunctive occasionally occurs, being analogous to the ordinary aorist subjunctive with...
Page viii - whose writings have thrown light upon most of the dark places in Greek Syntax.
Page 147 - With Supposition contrary to Fact. § 222. When the protasis states a present or past supposition, implying that the condition is not or was not fulfilled, the secondary tenses of the indicative are used in both protasis and apodosis. The apodosis takes the adverb av.
Page 382 - There is, in fact, nothing in the earliest employment of these modes to prove that they might not all be specialized uses of forms originally equivalent — having, for instance, a general future meaning.
Page 165 - The future as an emphatic form is especially common, when the condition contains a strong appeal to the feelings or a threat or a warning' — GOODWIN, Moods and Tenses, § 447.
Page 254 - In an indirect quotation or question the original words conform to the construction of the sentence in which they are quoted. Thus the words ravra ßov\opai may be quoted either directly, Xe'yet тч "т air a ßoii\oua i," or indirectly, Xt'y« rts oTt ravTa ßov\frat or фтуоч тч?
Page 389 - I fear it may), has come to mean 7 suspect it may prove bad, and finally, / think it will prove bad or it will probably prove bad. The expression, however, always retains at least the implication that the fact thus stated is an object of apprehension to some one, though it has lost all of its original reference to such apprehension on the part of the speaker.2 If now a 1 The idea suggested rather than advocated by Gildersleeve (Am. Jour. Philol. III. pp. 203, 205), that...
Page 16 - The aorist of verbs which denote a state or condition generally expresses the entrance into that state or condition.

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